I have a bit of that this year. I'd say more than usual in the florida weaved big beefs. I don't usually see much. My weaved tomatoes see a lot of sun compared to my caged tomatoes with some house shadow. Seems to me there have been a whole lot of sunny, hot days in the last two months. I put out plant the usual time, after Mother's Day. They took right off. But first harvest of them for sauce was today, 8/9. That's got to be at least a week late. They just didn't want to blush and lot have light shoulders and cracks. It has been pretty dry and hot the last month or more.
If I remember I'll take some pics tomorrow before they go into the mill. They are in the pickup bed under ag19 right now. Big Beefs never get really red but I'm not used to seeing the yellow and shoulders and the cracking.
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